David Harrison Horton
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David Harrison Horton
@unionherald.bsky.social
Artist, curator, editor, and writer based in Beijing. Author of Necessary (Downingfield, 2025), Model Answers (CCCP Chapbooks, 2024) and Maze Poems (Arteidolia, 2022). Edits poetry zine SAGINAW.
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My second full-length poetry book, Necessary, is out today from Downingfield Press. I am really very excited about this. If you’re interested in reviewing it please DM me. downingfield.com/book/necessa...
Going to say once again for clarity: I’m here for poetry, small press stuff, stuff where that might be adjacent. If you’re a human and don’t want to be blocked, DM me and etc. Getting too many robots this week
November 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Li Biao Percussion Group @ the Egg. Easily in my top 5 of performances I’ve seen here. At one point, they were playing tinfoil and bottle brushes (pic). Steve Reich, Xenakis, even Bach on the program. Glad the NCPA put this on. Easily the closest to avant I’ve seen in concert hall officialdom here.
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Look what my friend and fellow poet, Dom Armstrong, did. It’s a pretty great chap.
November 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
SAGINAW has nominated pieces by @billymills.bsky.social, Stephen Ratcliffe, Katie Coy, @dangodston.bsky.social, and
@thedaybooks.bsky.social for the Pushcart Prize.
November 12, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Kyla Houbolt's book came in the mail today. I read it earlier this year to rightly praise it. Now, I am going to re-read it over a cup of beautiful longjing tea. You should get a copy if you haven't already.
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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mutable edge // handcut paper collage with graphite on recycled paperboard, november 2025

#collageart #abstract #collage #queerart #artist
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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The Literary Arts Fund’s 2026 general operating grant application window is now open. U.S.-based literary arts nonprofits whose primary mission is presenting, publishing, and/or otherwise directly supporting creative writers are invited to apply: literaryartsfund.org/grants/
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Not sure why someone however long ago decided to carve two goats outside of their pen into a rock up in the Helan Mountains in north China, but I’m kinda glad they did. I do, however, feel there’s probably more to the story than we’re getting now.
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Walking around the Western Xia Imperial Tombs thinking about how everything eventually slips into history (remembered or not). It was actually a very calming experience.
November 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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A movie you have seen more than seven times…
November 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Your brain is not a computer.
Your thoughts are not algorithmic.

Don’t let Silicon Valley limit your understanding of your own mind with inaccurate metaphors.
November 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Any day now Asterism is going to move Kyla’s book from the preorder column to the order column. Order today!!!
Preorder now: the first full collection from Kyla Houbolt asterismbooks.com/product/beco...
November 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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#Poetry
I generally don't like to buy a book of poems without seeing a little example, so here is a breakfast-appropriate selection from Becoming Altar: The Devilry of Eggs.
October 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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For anyone who doesn't know - I didn't! - JSTOR now allows anyone 100 completely free articles a month. Excelsior!
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October 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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"Poem" by Joe Brainard.
October 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM
A couple of odes in Penumbra (out of CSU Stanislaus). Ode to Sam Langford was a staff pick and will also appear in the print edition. www.penumbraonline.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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I have a new poetry pamphlet out, titled THE RAVLIN HOUSE – currently available here :
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The Ravlin House
THE RAVLIN HOUSE is the 9th in a series of poetry pamphlets, published as part of a larger project titled SHIELD OF MNEMOSYNE, which I began writing in 2024. In summer 2025, the first three of these ...
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October 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I pulled my light winter jacket out this morning. Sweater season in Beijing lasted two weeks this year.
October 19, 2025 at 5:09 AM
As poetry editor, art critic Edward Lucie-Smith was bonkers: "Enright seldom rises to great heights," Bernard Spencer "was the type of the excellent minor poet," Heaney "is a brilliantly accomplished and facile writer, who works within an established convention." Even his praises are backhanded.
I’m embarrassed by how many of the poets included in this are new to me. Definitely a good used find for me. Seamus Heaney is listed under “New Voices.”
October 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Sometimes, I think about how Villard de Honnecourt's (13th century) sketchbook shows the cows in the towers of the Cathedral of Laon. This is what I think about when I'm waiting for football to start.
October 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I’m embarrassed by how many of the poets included in this are new to me. Definitely a good used find for me. Seamus Heaney is listed under “New Voices.”
October 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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I thought this John Berryman poem, exhumed from an archive by Shane Macrae and published in the TLS, was very fine.
October 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM